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When I think about me in this grand universe of consumerism, transactions , & financial systems. It just feels like me , a squirrel picking peanuts with bare hands and stocking them one by one in granary for future use. I'm into such a small biz. That's okay. But the problem is, the attackers don't even spare squirrels. The servers coming under DDos attacks and spammers taking over things doing their business more actively than me doing on my own servers.
We can spend some money , hire security experts and seal all holes. But it's almost like selling all my 2 years worth peanuts and pay the security expert only to protect an empty granary.Feels silly. You get the idea?

When I read news like Yahoo coming under attack. Linked-in getting spanked on their a*se. I get some ideas to drop online business and open a bakery at the street corner with cool steel shutters.
Yahoo, Linked-in : When all these huge giants spending millions on security systems, still getting to lose on security. People like me, should we even worry about this or just live by mercy of the attacker for our tiny online establishments?

Let me know if there's a script that detects a security breach attempt , and leave a direct note to the attacker's IP like:

"Respected attacker, I know you got skills. You could rip, roast this poor server.
But before you proceed, please read :
I'm a poor guy running a small business, Spare me, I'll give some IP addresses of my friends who are doing MUCH better and have real high-config servers. Trust me your throughput will be really high. Contact me to my email ID abc@xyz.com
, - Yours Honestly & faithfully me ".


Okay the questions you could answer:
Breaches happen at big companies just because they made an accidental stupid mistake in their security systems that an usual hacker could take advantage of?
Or
The security systems were really great but the attacker was simply too brilliant, everytime?

Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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